$200 average ticket price for BOM?! Don't get me wrong, I was lucky enough to get tickets and enjoy the show - I am from the area anyway. But when the average price surpasses $200, I get a bigger case of sticker shock. $100+ tickets are bad enough for the average theatergoer, especially for millenials like me. I hope the model changes.

On the bright side, at least an original, relatively smaller work such as BOM is doing much better than Spider-Man, which I have been skeptical about from the beginning. It's shaping up to be a super-expensive flop.

That's a pretty good first week for TWELFTH NIGHT/RICHARD III, too. I'm not good with B.O. math, but if roughly 750 of the 1,000 seats are being sold at full price, and 250 are the $25 ones, having an average ticket at $76 is pretty impressive, no?

Here's hoping they keep up the good numbers and dare I say even recoup. I'd love for their ticketing model go mainstream!

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yeah, I see no reason why Big Fish would close by New Years. They've had solid grosses throughout previews and they continue to pull in solid numbers after they opened. A strong word-of-mouth really helps a show and Big Fish has a good word-of-mouth circulating. kudos to them!

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JNB -- those numbers don't mean much all alone, it always has to be in comparision to several things: % of Potential, and of course, in relation to its weekly expenses (its nut) However, you should also note: that only 4 or 5 shows have a lower average ticket price...likely many comps -- which isn't unusual for the first week.

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Yeah, the other variables are all important, much more so than average ticket price, I guess I was just expecting their number to be lower than $76 with 25% of the theatre being priced at rush, essentially. Maybe it's a sign that they didn't paper their first week of previews heavily (if at all), which would at least also be very encouraging.

Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

This math is all rough, but if you look at the chart, a potential gross of $640,530 divided by 6,306 total seats equals a potential average ticket price of $101.57, so selling a quarter of the house for a quarter of average potential price, the resulting average ticket price was lowered by 25% from $101 to $76... so yeah, the math checks out perfectly and there was very little papering or discounting involved last week. Good for them, I hope that trend continues for both shows.